If all goes according to plan (Project Jigsaw we’re looking at you), Java 9 is set to launch in less than 100 days. You can join the countdown to its release right here. It will come packed with a long...
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I'm not sure if I'm alone on this opinion, but it sure seems to me that the deprecation of the finalize method has been given way too much press. I can't recall this much fervor over method deprecation since they blacklisted the java.util.Date() constructor and told everyone to start using a...

Conversations about architecting the enterprise for agility often start with a consideration of new technologies. However, this only works when enterprises processes and policies that support them are in place, said Jason Cox, director of system engineering at The Walt...

According to Adrian Cockcroft, VP of cloud architecture at AWS, one of the biggest challenges in architecting cloud systems lies in architecting the people side of things. Along with the work he does at Amazon, Cockcroft...

This year, the theme for International Women’s Day was “Be Bold for Change”. To kick off my series on women in technology, I made a point of attending a local celebration hosted by Intuit. All the...
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Watching both the tech industry as well as mainstream media oversimplify the February 2017 Amazon S3 outage story annoyed me greatly. The annoyance transitioned into keystrokes, producing two opinion pieces on the topic, one of which evaluated the impact the outage would have on the faith users put...